yo
Technical information about ISO 639 language code yo
The table below provides technical details for the Yoruba language, designated by the yo
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Yoruba belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Volta-Niger subgroup. It is one of the major languages spoken in Nigeria and is also spoken by minority communities in Benin and Togo. It is primarily written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are around 45 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Yoruba speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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